Sunday, May 17, 2020

Once Is Happenstance. Twice Is Coincidence. The Third Time It's...


From the Atlanta Journal Constitution
‘It’s just cuckoo’: state’s latest data mishap causes critics to cry foul

Where does Sunday take place twice a week? And May 2 come before April 26?

The state of Georgia, as it provides up-to-date data on the COVID-19 pandemic.In the latest bungling of tracking data for the novel coronavirus, a recently posted bar chart on the Georgia Department of Public Health’s website appeared to show good news: new confirmed cases in the counties with the most infections had dropped every single day for the past two weeks...

DPH changed the graph Monday after more than a day of online mockery, public concern and a letter from a state representative. Gov. Brian Kemp’s office issued an apology and its spokespeople said they’d never make this kind of mistake again...

This unforced error — at least the third in as many weeks — is confounding observers who have noted sloppiness in case counts, death counts and other measures that are fundamental to tracking a disease outbreak. Georgians check the data daily to decide whether it’s safe to reopen their businesses or send their children to daycare. Policymakers use it for decisions affecting the health of more than 10 million Georgians...

"Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
The third time it's enemy action."  -- Ian Fleming



No Half Measures




5 comments:

Robt said...

This is what our media says about Russia and their documenting cases. China too..

isn't that a coincidence? Many of these GOPers have met with Putin's team. Think they are being given a playbook to control us? How many times before conspiracy is reality?

Anonymous said...

"Many of these GOPers have met with Putin's team."
I suppose you Lie-berals will next try to claim that Ron Johnson's (et al.) trip to Russia -- our new bestest friend! -- on July 4th a couple of years ago, was not the height of patriotism. That's as crazy as saying Brian Kemp suppressed as many votes as possible, from voters who just happen to be black/brown.

wibble said...

*appends [/snark] tag out of a surfeit of caution* :)

Robt said...

Senor Anonymous
Well, I am sort of saying that in an elaborated way.

May I be frank?
Frank says,
" A cat learns more in licking itself clean through the day than a human who listens to Rush Limbaugh 3 hours a day and an additional 3 hours of his rerun.

So yes, cats rule and republicans drool.

Unknown said...

Ian Fleming's great fault was that he couldn't write 'stupid'. Meaning that all of his characters, for whatever other flaws they had, and how nefariously evil they might be, were never as dim as anyone we've had to contend with in the last forty years. Fleming just didn't have the negative imagination to let his writing dwell below his intellect (to our, the readers', great benefit).

In other words, Ian Fleming couldn't write 'Republican'.

Regarding Gov. Brain Kemp's office: enemy action? Sure, I could believe that.

Ignorance, ineptitude, indifference, and incompetence? Fk YEAH, I can believe that...!